| [mercury concentration of fish in tokyo bay and the surrounding sea area]. | total mercury in the muscles of three fish species was analyzed in fish caught in tokyo bay and the surrounding sea areas, sagami bay and choshi. tokyo bay is a semi-closed sea area surrounded by tokyo, kanagawa and chiba prefectures. sagami bay and choshi are open to the pacific ocean. a total of 412 fish consisting of northern whiting (sillago japonica), flatfish (limanda yokohamae) and sardine (sardinops melanosticta) were caught in these areas over a 6 months period from november 1998 to apr ... | 2001 | 11519183 |